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11 December 2014

The newsletter for January is going out a little earlier in the month than usual as everything winds down for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Aro Ling Cardiff will be open as usual up to and including Friday 19th December and then closed until the new year. The first event of 2015 will be our regular first-Saturday-of-the-month meditation introduction: Discovering the Spaciousness of Mind, Saturday 3rd January 2015, 10 – 12. The regular events will roll on as usual from then (see below).Aro Ling Cardiff is offering something new in January. Rather than a five week course, there will be a five session weekend event. Living, Dreaming, Dying will run from Friday evening, 16th January to Sunday lunchtime, 18th January. Attend one session, several sessions, or all five – the choice is yours.

Living, Dreaming, Dying

– a weekend retreat: January 16 – 18, 2015

£6 a session or £25 for the whole weekend – attend one, several or all sessions

Session 1: Friday January 16th 19:00 – 20:30 Dream Yoga– learn the practice of dream yoga and how to make sleep-time usefulSession 2: Saturday January 17th 10:00 – 12:00 Living and Dying Every Day– death and impermanence as the natural ebb and flow of existenceSession 3: Saturday January 17th 14:00 – 16:00 Changing Mind Moments– the realms of existence through which we move because of our emotional responsesSession 4: Saturday January 17th 18:00 – 20:00 Tantric Empowerment– transmission of the practice of Yeshé Tsogyel, the female tantric BuddhaSession 5: Sunday January 18th 10:00 – 12:00 Death & Birth of Each Moment- discovering the continuity of discontinuity through the nine bardos of the Aro Lineage

Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin will lead this weekend of teachings. Theywill explore how we can we live with honour and integrity, ensuring that we arealways existing as open-hearted human beings, rather than falling into otherless human states of mind. Learn the practice of dream yoga and discover howdream consciousness differs from waking consciousness, and how we can make thistime valuable rather than a period of unconsciousness. Discover living anddying, permanence and impermanence, as a natural and continual flow throughoutour lives, rather than fearing death as a single future definitive event.

On Saturday evening, Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin will give empowermentinto the practice of Yeshé Tsogyel. She is the female tantric Buddha from whomthe Aro gTér Lineage originates, and was the Tibetan consort of Padmasambhava.There are many delightful places to eat and drink in Whitchurch village. Book in advance to be included in numbers for lunch and dinner on Saturday 17th.Regular events at Aro Ling Buddhist Centre in Cardiff will continue until Friday 19th December 2014, and then restart on Saturday 3rd January:Discovering the Spaciousness of Mind– first Saturday of each month, 10 – 12, £5